Genocide

The Holocaust was the systematic persecution and murder of approximately six million European Jews by Nazi Germany and its collaborators. It was a genocide: an attempt to destroy a whole people. Nazi racial persecution also targeted other groups, including Roma.

The Holocaust was the systematic persecution and murder of approximately six million European Jews by Nazi Germany and its allies and collaborators. It was a genocide: an attempt to destroy an entire people. Jewish people were targeted because of who they were, not because of anything they had done.